As I shared many words about earlier this week, my switch to Apple Music means I’m pulling more songs from the past up into my daily soundtrack. Which means these playlists are going to start including more classics. Which was my intention back when I started them however many years ago. There will still be plenty of new music if that’s why you come to these posts.
“Rock ’n’ Roll High School” – Ramones
We are a week and change from having just one high schooler left in the house.
“Somebody New” – Tunde Adebimpe
I said I was looking forward to his album, then didn’t get around to listening to it when it came out. And now this is the best of the singles released from it, each sounding a little different.
“Every” – Swanpalace
An interesting supergroup of sorts, built around two artists most of us have never heard of along with Jim Eno, a founding member and long-time drummer of Spoon. This has a terrific, late Seventies sound. To my ears it bumps right up next to Cheap Trick.
“There’s A Part I Can’t Get Back” – Sunflower Bean
A truly harrowing, yet beautiful, song about how grooming steals innocence from its victims.
“Outside” – Jawdropped
A hint of grunge in this jangle rock makes it stand out nicely.
“Cutting Room Floor” – Gordi
These last four songs all fit into some kind of musical Venn diagram I’m too lazy to clearly delineate. But Gordi sounds a lot like Christine McVie on this track, so it would pull in some Fleetwood Mac angle I guess.
“Month of May” – Arcade Fire
The most important month of the year in Indianapolis is here. Also, AF has new music out but I did not dig their lead single so I’ll stick with this more time-appropriate oldie.
“Dead Souls” – Joy Division
I know I just shared a JD song a couple weeks back, but I heard this one yesterday and had to slap it into the playlist.
“Rock the Bells” – LL Cool J
Talk about mission statements! Back in the days of vinyl/cassettes, sometimes the first track on side two was as important as the first on side one. This was Side Two, Track One on not only LL’s first album, but the first full length album ever released by Def Jam. Dropping Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Prince’s names seemed outrageously ambitious at the time. But James Todd Smith knew where he and the label were headed.
Not sure why a new video was released for this two months ago but I like it.